<p>Would love to hear from current students, as well as parents and alums!</p>
<p>My kid is a junior and doing well but he often tells me about the trials and tribulations of his peers. The main problems he sees are that kids don’t know how to study and they don’t know that their priority should be to get an education. I think it causes him some distress to watch kids fail, transfer, waste their time and their parents’ money.</p>
<p>Personally, I wish that his freshman roommates brought less stuff to the dorm. There’s just not that much room. I wish that freshman and their parents would read through the threads here, and dig into the OSU website to get valuable info that would help get everyone off to a good start.</p>
<p>Also, IMO the campus isn’t really that big. If you feel you have to have a bike, get a decent lock, try for a dorm that has a bike room, and don’t bring a good bike with quick release seats and tires because people will swipe parts. Better yet, use the buses. DS prefers a skatebaord but I know that’s not for everyone.</p>
<p>I would love insight on this. I’m a potential transfer(coming in as a sophomore) </p>
<p>I’ve been accepted, but I’m not sure. I’m also an out-of-state student.</p>
<p>I wish I had drafted out a full four year plan earlier than I did- I took fairly easy quarters my freshman and sophomore years, because I thought coming in with credit from high school AP classes would make it easy to graduate on time. </p>
<p>I realized late sophomore year that I had a lot of classes yet to take, and being in a specialized honors program that required extra classes and a minor also added requirements. I am still planning on graduating in four years, but my senior year will be more stressful than I’d like, considering I’ll also be interviewing for full-time jobs then.</p>
<p>In general advice for a lot of freshmen- it is difficult to come back from a bad GPA. Too many students come in dreaming of med school, but find themselves earning low grades in the chemistry and organic chemistry series, grades too low to get into med school. I wish pre-med students would take a serious look at their study skills and intellectual abilities before they spend two years destroying their GPAs with classes they can’t handle. Kids who waste their time and money failing classes makes me sad too.</p>
<p>Also, get involved in something you enjoy, and you will meet like-minded people. Your friends will likely come from your dorm and the groups you get involved in.</p>